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We want to hear from you!

The Community Energy Plan (CEP) is currently under review and community participation is important to help achieve our goals and objectives. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions about the document, you can email them to environment@burlington.ca

What is the CEP?

The CEP was created with support from local community stakeholders. The plan outlines a roadmap to help the community conserve energy, reduce its carbon footprint, commit to a sustainable and secure supply of energy, and improve energy resilience.

There are many ways that we use energy in our lives - power for electronics and applicances, thermal energy to heat and cool buildings, fuel for our vehicles and equipment, and power to run industry.

Energy and climate change

The use of fossil fuels contributes to climate change by emitting greenhouse gases. Although energy from our electricity grid has been significantly de-carbonized since the province phased out the coal fired generating stations, natural gas plants are still used to meet peak demand and help stabilize the grid. And we still rely primarily on fossil fuels to provide thermal energy and fuel-up most of our vehicles.

There are five goals and associated objectives in the plan related to:

Behaviour change (to achieve a culture of conservation)

Energy efficiency

Energy generation and security

Land use and growth

Transportation

There are currently 55 actions for implementation over a 20-year period to be coordinated by the city in partnership with a number of different stakeholders, including Burlington Hydro and Union Gas. Community stakeholder involvement is an important part of this plan, which focuses on the community as a whole instead of just city operations.

Interesting fact:

Approximately 30 per cent of our energy in Burlington is consumed by the transportation sector (based on gasoline and diesel fuel). However, when converted to greenhouse gas emissions, it represents over 40 per cent of our community emissions.

Contacts:

Contact Department

Numbers

Links

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